The BMA defends strike action as way to ‘sort out’ pressures
As a resident doctor, you can find yourself in a new town, hundreds of miles from friends and family. But there is often strong support available from your new colleagues, in the shape of the doctors’ mess. Here, Sonya Bushell and Nitish Trikha describe how their messes help resident doctors socialise and integrate into the medical community
Intense stress, and a feeling that no one is there to help, has tragically led to a number of doctors taking their own lives and caused others to consider it. To mark National Suicide Memorial Day for health and care workers, Seren Boyd meets those for whom it has a painful resonance
Why would a doctor write poetry? Given how some use it – as a coping mechanism in war and abusive situations, to help them better relate to patients and to combat burnout – they might ask, how can a doctor manage without it? By Seren Boyd
Health service catering has tended to offer little in the way of either 'health' or 'service', but it's not all pie, chips and pop, as Ben Ireland discovered at a hospital determined to do better
A GP wants to change the way her colleagues and patients think about health – and many say they have already benefited from the new approach. Jennifer Trueland reports
Paul Miller was an 'excellent' doctor who died after pressures at work led him to feel 'trapped and overwhelmed'. Ben Ireland attended his inquest and heard from family members about an intelligent, kind and modest man
They were the words of a coroner but it didn't take a legal expert to recognise the harm wrought by a system where work is intense, admissions of ill-health carry a stigma and support services are either under financial threat or non-existent. Ben Ireland reports
